Beware! Car Sale Money Scam!

I posted an add advertizing my Red Volvo 850 for sale, asking price
$1600 last month and was approached by a Nigerian Con Artist!

This person sent me a bogus check for $3500 dollars. It looked like a
payroll check from a Helicopter Company, (Bell Helicopter Textron).

The person was very anxious to have me send the balance of the money
($1900) after depositing the check to:"

INFO WHERE BALANCE SHOULD BE REMIT TO VIA WESTERN UNION
I deposited the check on a Thursday afternoon, and waited until
Tuesday to check my bank balance, which by that time had big minus
next to the $3500.

After the check bounced the bank charged me $10.

This was my first time being approached by a con artist on line, so I
thought I would share the experience.

Bob.

 

That's a very common scam, just the fact that it comes from Nigeria
should be a huge red flag, honestly I'm not sure how any sensible person
could fall for it, thankfully you only lost 10 bucks.

 

You couldn't smell that one 100 miles away???

I get those on a daily basis for stuff I'm selling, it's hilarious.

I posted an ENGINE and I get emails just like that except:

I want to buy your auto, please tell me the year make model... yeah, ok,
right...



sorry you got scammed.

 

Usually it is a counterfeit cashier's check:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/cashier.asp

Mike

 

Go to http://www.419eater.com/index.htm to see how to scam
the Nigerian scammers. It is one of the funniest things on
the Web.

 

It doesn't have to be Nigeria...I listed my car in a local sales
rag...THEY put the listing on the web. I got a call from a guy in
Canada. He said British Columbia...I did a reverse directory look up
of the number he called from...it said he was from Alberta...then he
sent the bogus cashier's check and the return address was Ontario. The
check was supposedly issued from the First Credit Union of Tempe
Arizona...the 800- phone number on the check dialed in to an answering
service that said "First Credit Union of Tempe"...but there was no
operator. I took the check to my local bank and we called the FCU of
Tempe's business office. The first thing they asked, "Is the name on
the check Tracy Martins?"...I called up the guy who tried to scam me
and told him to get a garbage bag...take a walk and pick up trash and
leave the world behind him a better place...he was a little stunned
that I didn't swear or bemoan his wicked ways.

 

Personally, I would ahve called the local cop shop (city police or
RCMP) and handed the whole thing over to them. MOre than enough stuff
by this guy to be spending years in various jails on both sides of teh
border....

 

The RCMP run a scam line for Nigerian advance payment scams


Non Nigerian types of scams should use .

I get 4 or 5 a year and send them on as a matter of course. I tried the FBI
but went down a deep rat hole really fast. If they can fnd someone who wll
listen the RCMP will let the FBI in on things.

G

 

We've been tracing and reporting these for years.

See http://classiccarfair.com/scamalert.htm

Cheers, Neil

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